Richard Chen
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Chen is a Head of Multimodal AI with 11 years of experience building generative and agentic AI systems for pathology and precision medicine, now leading multimodal efforts at AstraZeneca after his startup Modella AI was acquired. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Biomedical Informatics and postdoctoral work at Brigham and Women's/Harvard—with hands-on product and engineering leadership from roles at Apple, Proscia, and MSR. His work spans self-supervised and cross-modal learning, synthetic environment generation for endoscopy, and scalable AI deployment for clinical workflows, reflecting a rare combination of clinical domain expertise and production ML. Based in Boston, he’s known for turning cutting-edge research into commercial impact, and for quietly specializing in context-aware AI that bridges image, text, and agentic behaviors in healthcare settings.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (67)
high-resolution10
deep-learning10
image-generation10
transcriptomics10
computer-graphics10
vision-transformer10
digital-pathology10
genomics10
graph-convolutional-networks10
cyclegan10
representation-learning10
multimodal10
pyramid10
self-supervised-learning10
computer-vision10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mahmoodlab/HIPT
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Hierarchical Image Pyramid Transformer - CVPR 2022 (Oral)
Contributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 months
image-pyramidhierarchicalhistopathologypretrained-weightsself-supervised-learning
Richarizardd/Self-Supervised-ViT-Path
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Self-Supervised Vision Transformers Learn Visual Concepts in Histopathology (LMRL Workshop, NeurIPS 2021)
Contributions:77 commits, 4 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 months
vision-transformerself-supervised-learninghistopathologyweakly-supervised-learningunsupervised-learning
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